Rana A. Hajjeh and the Hib Initiative Team—2014 Recipient

Achievement: Led a global campaign to convince some of the world’s poorest countries to use a vaccine to fight bacterial meningitis and pneumonia, an initiative that is estimated to save the lives of 7 million children by 2020

Tara Palmore, Julie Segre and Team—2013 Recipients

Achievement: Stopped the spread of a deadly hospital-acquired infection through the first-ever use of genome sequencing to identify the source and trace the transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, creating a groundbreaking model for the health care industry

Paul A. Hsieh—2011 Recipient

Achievement: Provided critical scientific information to convince federal officials that the containment cap on a ruptured deepwater oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was working, thereby helping end the environmental disaster

Stephen McHale—2003 Recipient

Achievement: On January 2, 2002, the Transportation Security Administration consisted of two people—and Stephen McHale was one of them. Over the next year, McHale helped grow TSA into an organization responsible for aviation security with more than 60,000 people—the largest mobilization of a new agency since World War II